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First, a BIG thank you to all of our registered users for their comments
(and registrations) which have help us to make InstaCalc PC Magazine's
Editor's Choice among low cost spreadsheets (February 16, 1988). We
appreciate your support and confidence in our products.
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If you have questions, you can now ask them via EPLEX on CompuServe. Send
your questions to ID 73250,3163.
Version 2.5 adds the following features:
1. Non memory resident option (add /n on command line)
2. Point and shoot file loading
3. Importing multiple columns off the screen
4. Range move (/Range Reloc) command
5. ASCII import
6. User selectable currency symbol
The on-disk documentation has been compressed to fit on the disk. To print
out this documentation, use the program named PRINTDOC.COM
InstaCalc V2 uses a different file structure than version 1. Your old
version 1 files must be converted over to the new format using the program
CONVERT.COM.
InstaCalc uses an overlay structure. This means that the InstaCalc program
actually consists of 3 different files; INSTA.COM, INSTA.000, and INSTA.001.
INSTA.COM is the main part of the program. INSTA.000 and INSTA.001 are
overlay files which contain various features and functions of InstaCalc.
When InstaCalc needs to access one of these features or functions, it reads
the code for that feature in from INSTA.000 or INSTA.001. The advantage of
using an overlay structure is that the program uses up less memory, thereby
freeing up more RAM to put your spreadsheets in.
If you place the overlay files (INSTA.000 and INSTA.001) on a hard disk or
in a RAM disk in extended memory, you should not notice any significant
delay when these features are accessed. If the overlay files are on a
floppy disk, you may notice a small delay when accessing these features. If
you have a floppy based system and cannot tolerate the short delays, (or if
you want to free up both disk drives) you may place the overlay files in a
RAM disk.
InstaCalc needs to know where you place the overlay files. By default,
InstaCalc assumes that the overlay files are in the directory where you
start up InstaCalc. If you place the overlay files in a RAM disk or in a
directory other than where you start the program, then you must run the
setup program to create a configuration file which tells InstaCalc where you
put the overlays.
The setup program can also be used to tell InstaCalc where you placed the
help file. It will also let you customize the screen colors which InstaCalc
uses.